A treatise on the stomach and its trials / by J.C. Eno.

  • Eno, J. C.
Date:
[1870?]
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Credit: A treatise on the stomach and its trials / by J.C. Eno. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVICE TO WOULD-BE SUICIDES. Much has been said in these pages to enable all to be healthy, strong, and long-lived; there are, nevertheless, many who hold their lives so cheap, as to commit the terrible crime of suicide. Instead, however, of recklessly attaining that end by poison, the rope, pistol, or knife, we recommend the following modes, as being more natural, and quite as effectual: Wear thin shoes on damp nights, and keep every apartment air¬ tight. Keep the mind in a round of unnatural excitement, by politics, trashy novels, and gambling speculations, either on cards, races, or stock. Go to operas, minstrel concerts, theatres, in all sorts of weather, and when steaming hot with perspiration, rush into the cold air with your coat or shawl hanging over your arm. In balls, dance till exhausted, and then go home in your pumps, through the damp streets and air. Sleep on feather-beds, in the smallest and closest room in the house. Eat immoderately of hot and stimulating diet. Never drink anything weaker than strong tea, nor anything stronger than neat whisky or brandy. Teach your children early to drink strong coffee, chew or smoke tobacco. Marry in a hurry, and growl and repent for the rest of your life. Never masticate food, but bolt it like a serpent. Follow any exciting or unhealthy business, if money can be made at- it, so that your friends may console themselves for your early death. Never go to bed before midnight, and then with a full stomach. Eat little niceties, such as pastries, fruit, lunch, wine, &c., between meals. Be always in a passion, either of anger or love. When ailing, pay no attention to the regulation of your diet, exercise, or occupation. Attempt no con¬ formity to the laws of life, but gormandise to your uttermost bent; and you will be surprised to learn of the body, what 1A frail and fickle tenement it is, Which, like the brittle glass that measures time, Is often broke, ere half its sands are run.’ NATURE’S LAWS. s Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou livest Live well.’—Milton. 1 Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon us winning or losing a game at chess. Don’t you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and moves of the pieces; to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check ? Do you not think we should look